In any other market, such huge stocks would eventually cause the price to collapse.
During the first three months of the year firms produced more than consumers could buy, and so built up huge stocks of unsold goods.
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Arms smuggling in particular surged last year, as rebels in Libya grabbed huge stocks of weapons accumulated during the paranoid reign of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi.
In America, where commercial bankers still face restrictions when it comes to selling shares and insurance, Sanford Weill, the boss of Travelers Group, has moulded Smith Barney, a brokerage, and Travelers, an insurer, into a huge stocks-funds-and-insurance house.
They are money managers with huge portfolios of stocks and bonds that exceed their net worth.
Huge amounts of stocks are held in non-taxed accounts (IRAs, pensions, foundations, etc.).
Of all country specific indices, Russia was the best performer for 2010 and is up over 12% for the past 3 months, evidence that some plucky investors are wagering on huge Russian energy stocks like Lukoil that sell at a discount to the major internationals.
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This, in my opinion, is what creates the huge volatility with individual stocks, witnessed almost daily.
Krensavage doesn't expect huge returns on drug stocks, like those after Hillary Care collapsed during Bill Clinton's presidency.
During the financial crisis Koza made huge profits buying financial stocks like Genworth and Radian Group trading at bankruptcy level prices.
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Special offer: Zoran, Broadcom, Sigma Designs and Analog Devices--two of these stocks are huge bargains, and the other two you should avoid.
Either I give away to my foundation all stocks with huge gains or I write covered options on them month after month.
The market swoon took a huge bite out of financial stocks Thursday.
The fourth quarter of 2010 was a huge boom quarter for solar stocks when Italy installed more solar projects than anyone had foreseen.
And stocks often make huge, stunning moves, in both directions.
In the 1990s, we had a big bull run and then, starting in 2000 to 2002, we had a huge sell-off in stocks because of the dotcom bubble and bust.
Housing stocks had a huge year in 2012, but the likes of PulteGroup and Home Depot may be at levels that demand a more rapid housing recovery than the market can deliver.
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Their cheap weapons come mostly from huge but fast-shrinking surplus stocks that date back to cold war days.
And whether or not you buy into this theory, you do have to admit that stocks have handled the huge rise in bond yields pretty darn well lately.
Sure, putting a huge slug of your wealth in three stocks is not for the faint of heart.
They encourage this activity by claiming that stocks remain cheap despite the huge run up since March, 2009.
What has caught the attention of the media and markets is that a huge amount of money has gone into stocks since the beginning of the new year.
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The huge pharmaceutical, insurance and medical services stocks that make up the XLV ETF have proven their resilience and ability to grow through any kind of economic or political adversity.
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He also notes that the stocks in the group have provided huge returns since the 2009 bottom.
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Although he's a huge fan of FactSet, Petainen screens for stocks at home with Stock Investor Pro from AAII.
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The huge rally that erupted in March has taken stocks, in most cases, not much higher than they were at the start the year, and still substantially below their October 2007 highs.
Dan Mathisson, Credit Suisse managing director and head of advanced execution services, believes these massive orders were from quant hedge funds whose algorithms suddenly decided stocks were cheap and sent out huge buy orders, all over 1 million shares each.
Esther Dyson: I don't actually follow public stocks, but I think there are huge opportunities in companies that offer services for individuals (sometimes via doctors or institutions, and sometimes directly).
China's economy faces huge hurdles as it restructures, and China-related stocks are notoriously speculative and sentiment driven.
Stocks globally bottomed in March and were up huge the rest of the year and did great in 2010 too.
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